Saturday, January 31, 2009

Sectioning

Online sectioning for 10b is now open and will close at 5:00 pm on Thursday, February 5th. Please do not section until you are certain that you will enroll in the course. Click here to section for 10b.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Syllabus

Here's the syllabus; click on the button at the top right to maximize:

Course Syllabus

English 10B: Course Syllabus (PDF)

representative poetry online

Besides containing images to be used in the lectures for English 10b, this blog will also contain links to documents and to reliable electronic resources that might be especially useful to you as you make your way through our reading. The syllabus itself should be posted soon.

My favorite single electronic resource for the study of literature in English is the University of Toronto's Representative Literature collection, not a complete, but a wide-ranging selection of poems and criticism in English. It differs from almost all other such Web-based collections in that it is editorially reliable, i.e. academics who know what they're doing have figured out what versions of poems to use and appended basic information about the texts and about the authors. It's also elegant, good-looking, and ad-free. Here is the Representative Poetry front page; here, the front page for Representative Criticism.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

images: first lecture

Image A. (UK)

Image B. (VB)

Image C. (LR)

Image D. (LGE) Image E. (LGB) Image F. (LGI)

Image G. (GE)

Image H1 (what) and image H2 (where).

Image I (WBY). And the living, and their Image J (PM). And Image K (hats).

UCL.

Lord Rochester.

Hogarth's painting of a scene from The Beggar's Opera.

William Blake's title page for Songs of Innocence and Experience.

A beautiful lake in Wordworth's Lake District.

The astonishingly useful Victorian Web, and the Crystal Palace interior.

The young Auden.